Facebook adds Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr to Home app on Android

Facebook is adding third-party services Flickr, Tumblr and Pinterest in an attempt to jump start usage of its Facebook Home for Android app.

Earlier this year, Facebook advertized Facebook Home as a way to make the social network the central experience for owners of Android smart phones, and HTC even introduced a new model with the app installed.

But those who tried Facebook Home complained that they didn’t want to be limited to just Facebook’s world on their lock screens or when they woke their devices.

Last month at TechCrunch Distrupt, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged Facebook Home was rolling out slower than he had hoped and announced Instagram was being added. “I still fully believe that this is something people are going to want over time,” he said.

So Facebook today began offering beta testers the chance to add Pinterest, Yahoo’s Flickr and Tumblr and Facebook’s own Instagram. So far, the test is limited to those four choices, which notably doesn’t include Twitter or any apps from Google.

“This is just a test and we’ll continue to iterate before we expand,” a Facebook spokeswoman said.